3 Hearts Canvas and Patch of Blue in affiliation with Southwark Playhouse and Verse Unbound have introduced casting for Cassie and the Lights that performs Southwark Playhouse Borough this spring. Alex Howarth directs Alex Mind (Cassie), Helen Chong (Tin), Emily McGlynn (Package), and Martha Walker (Swing), with voiceovers by Bethany Antonia (Jasmine), Louisa Harland (Alice), Oli Higginson (Mark) Wendi Peters (Trainer) and John Thomson (Lawyer).
Following critically acclaimed runs in New York and on the Edinburgh Fringe Pageant, this enchanting play created and directed by Alex Howarth options reside music and is predicated on real-life occasions and interviews with youngsters in care. Unique Scenic Design by Alex Howarth, Set and Costume Design by Ruth Badila, and Composition by Imogen Mason and Ellie Mason.
Cassie and the Lights opens at Southwark Playhouse Borough, within the Little Auditorium, on 5 April, with previews from 3 April and runs till 20 April 2024.
Can youngsters be mother and father?
When Cassie’s mom disappears, {the teenager} needs to take care of her sisters on her personal. Is she the best individual to be a mother or father now, or ought to she let foster mother and father undertake her sisters and create a brand new household?
Primarily based on real-life occasions and interviews with youngsters in care and that includes reside music, this play celebrates the resilience of youngsters. Cassie and the Lights is a young and playful examination of what makes a household and what holds it collectively.
Alex Mind performs Cassie. Their theatre credit embrace The Railway Kids (York Theatre Royal), Again to Blackbrick (Arts Theatre, UK tour), When We Ran (The Pleasance Edinburgh), The Tortoise and The Hare (UK tour), We Dwell By The Sea (59E59 Theatres New York, Arts Theatre, SoHo Playhouse New York, Adelaide Pageant Australia, China Nationwide Tour, Greenwich Theatre, Pleasance Edinburgh), and The Gods The Gods The Gods (Australia and New Zealand Tour). Their tv credit embrace Primeval and Enid.
Helen Chong performs Tin. Her earlier theatre credit embrace the Off-Broadway manufacturing of Cassie and the Lights (VAULT Pageant, Adelaide Fringe Pageant and 59E59, New York), A.L.I.C.E. in Wanderlust (Lawrence Batley Theatre), 4 Fashions in Vivid Hats Assume In regards to the Future (Dwell Theatre), and Jack and the Beanstalk (Applecart Arts). Her tv credit embrace The Dumping Floor, and The Hermit.
Emily McGlynn performs Package. Her earlier theatre credit embrace the Off-Broadway manufacturing of Cassie and the Lights (Vault Pageant, London, Adelaide Fringe Pageant and 59E59, New York), The Fall (Previous Purple Lion Theatre), Lengthy Joan Silver (Hope St Theatre), Oh! You Fairly Issues (Southwark Playhouse), Aladdin (Palace Theatre), Jose (Liverpool Fringe), and Piramania! The Swashbuckling Pirate Musical (Upstairs on the Gatehouse and Edinburgh Pageant Fringe).
Martha Walker makes her skilled stage debut.
Bethany Antonia performs Jasmine. Her earlier tv credit embrace Home of the Dragon, Physician Who, Nolly, LAVA, Keep Shut, and Get Even; and for movie The Velveteen Rabbit, Sense and Sensibility and Pin Cushion.
Louisa Harland performs Alice. Her earlier theatre credit embrace Cotton Fingers (Nationwide Theatre Wales), Glass, Kill, Bluebeard,Imp (Royal Court docket), Dancing at Lughnasa (Nationwide Theatre), and Ulster American (Riverside Studios). Her tv credit embrace Love/Hate, The Deceived, Harley and the Davidsons, Massive Boys, and Derry Ladies; and for movie Misplaced in London, Boys from County Hell, and Pleasure. Her upcoming credit embrace Renegade Nell and Lengthy Days Journey into Evening.
Oli Higginson performs Mark. His earlier theatre credit embrace Othello, Julius Ceasar (Shakespeare’s Globe), Smoke, The Final 5 Years (Southwark Playhouse Borough), Lava (Soho Theatre), A Christmas Carol (The Previous Vic), The Final 5 Years, Maggie and Ted (Garrick Theatre), The Haystack (Hampstead Theatre), Napoleon Blown Aside (Arcola Theatre), and The Assassination of Marcus Garvey (Theatre 503). His tv credit embrace Julia, The Chelsea Detective, Bridgerton, This England, The Pursuit of Love and Cursed. He’s additionally an rising author, at the moment growing his debut play alongside the Orange Tree Theatre as a part of the Orange Tree’s Writers Collective.
Wendi Peters performs Mrs Jacobson. Peters has carried out in her one-woman present Let Me Sing And I’m Completely happy (St James Theatre), and mostrecently Wendi Peters: Dwell at Zédel (The Loopy Coqs). Her theatre credit embrace You Are Right here (Southwark Playhouse), Massive! The Musical (Dominion Theatre), White Christmas (Dominion Theatre, Edinburgh Pageant Fringe, The Lowry, Manchester), The Clockmaker’s Daughter, State Honest (Cadogan Corridor), Is There Anyone There? (New Adelphi Theatre, Manchester), Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched (Park Theatre), Our Home tenth Anniversary Live performance (Savoy Theatre), The Thriller of Edwin Drood (Arts Theatre), April in Paris (Hull Truck, UK tour), Grumpy Previous Ladies Dwell 2 – Chin up Britain (UK tour, Novello Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (Tivoli Theatre, Dublin), Kids Will Hear – celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s seventy fifth Birthday (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) and Follies in Live performance (London Palladium). Her tv credit embrace Docs (as collection common Nina Balsara), Coronation Avenue (as collection common Cilla Battersby Brown), Movie star Stitching Bee for Kids in Want, Hold it within the Household, Adrenaline Junkie with Jack Osbourne, Hetty Feather, Phoenix Rise, Lynda Babbage in Midsomer Murders, Hacker Time, Sadie J, Crime Tales, Dangerous Ladies, Out of the Blue and Cardiac Arrest; and for movie Gyppo, Coronation St- Out of Africa and In Love and Conflict.
John Thomson performs Lawyer. He’s a comic and actor finest identified for his roles in The Quick Present, Males Behaving Badly, Spitting Picture, Chilly Toes, The Brothers Grimsby, and Coronation Avenue (as collection common Jesse Chadwick); and for movie 24 Hour Social gathering Folks alongside Steve Coogan. This 12 months he might be starring as Detective Warren Bull in BBC’s Silent Witness.
Alex Howarth is a author, director and designer. He was named one in all ‘Ten Stage Sensations to Watch Out For in 2023’ by The Guardian. With a background of working in care, Howarth is keen about amplifying under-represented and northern voices. His play Cassie and the Lights is predicated on a real story and interviews with youngsters within the care system. Nominated for the BBC Author’s Room Popcorn Award and the SitUp Award for social change, it ran at 59E59 Theaters, Off Broadway New York in 2023. A former drama therapist for the charity Sense, he has labored extensively with disabled artists, and not too long ago co-created one man present Strictly Lawrie with disabled artist Lawrie Morris. His play a couple of woman with autism, We Dwell By the Sea, obtained Critic’s Decide and High Theatre of the Yr in The New York Occasions, gained the Greatest Theatre Award and the Critic’s Selection Award at Adelaide Pageant, the Grahame F. Smith Peace Basis Award for selling human rights by way of theatre, and was nominated for a Fringe First and the Off West Finish Awards for Greatest Manufacturing and Greatest Ensemble. He was the assistant director on La Traviata on the Royal Opera Home, Covent Backyard, and commonly directs at drama faculties together with Italia Conti, Central College of Speech and Drama, Mountview Theatre College, and Chichester Conservatoire. He tailored and directed the world stage premiere of What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape, alongside the movie’s author and director, Oscar nominee Peter Hedges. He’s the Creative Director of multi-award-winning Patch of Blue, who create unique theatre items with reside music for festivals and touring.
